Statistical Terms Glossary

A factory where fish is prepared for storage by salting.

See Social accounting matrix

Are persons who do not reside in the country of arrival and stay for just a day without spending the night in a collective or private accommodation within the country visited. Or are foreign persons who do not reside in the country of arrival and stay for just a day without spending the night in a collective or private accommodation within the country visited.

It is a subset from the statistical population to be selected by certain criteria.

Maintaining and adding to the sample of establishments in the survey panel to ensure it continues to be representative of the population of establishments [or outlets].

A sample design is the framework, or road map, that serves as the basis for the selection of a survey sample

Limiting the length of time that establishments stay on the survey panel by dropping a proportion of them after a certain period of time and replacing them with a new sample of establishments. Generally only done with the smaller respondents, for whom it is felt that responding to surveys imposes a significant burden.

The price collected for a sampled product, sometimes described as a price quote.

An individual product that is included in the sample selected for pricing within an elementary aggregate.

The frame consists of a list of all the known units in the universe,. For a sample survey, the frame represents a list of the target population from which the sample is selected.

It is the units making up the sampling frame for the first stage of a multistage sample.

It is the sample that has probability of selection for each unit proportional to the size of the unit.

Bond issued on the Japanese market in yen outside Japan.

Coercive measures targeting a particular nation.

Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary reaffirming that no Member should be prevented from adopting or enforcing measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, subject to the requirement that these measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between Members where the same conditions prevail or a disguised restriction on international trade.

Are government regulations that restrict or prohibit the importation and marketing of certain animal species, or products thereof, to prevent the introduction or spread of pests or diseases that these animals may be carrying.

Improvement of environmental conditions in household that affect human health by means of drainage and disposal of sewage and refuse.

A Saprobic water classification is a biological classification of water quality according to five categories:
(a) oligosaprobic: clear, with no or only slight pollution and high dissolved oxygen (DO) content,
(b) p—mesosaprobic: moderately polluted with still high DO content,
(c) x—mesosaprobic: polluted with not very high DO content,
(d) polysaprobic: strongly polluted, with negligible DO content, and
(e) antisaprobic: so polluted that no living organism is capable of living in the water

A statistical business register may be quite a complex network of databases and functionalities. An approach that can be used to extend the functionality with minimum complication is to extract parts or the whole of one or more frozen frames from the SBR and afterwards link information from other data sources to its units. The resulting product, which is maintained outside and independent of the SBR, is called an SBR satellite. The responsibility for and control of a satellite are separated from the SBR and usually take place in a different environment.

Satellite accounts provide a framework linked to the central accounts and which enables attention to be focussed on a certain field or aspect of economic and social life in the context of national accounts; common examples are satellite accounts for the environment, or tourism, or unpaid household work.

Is a type of parabolic antenna designed to receive microwaves from communications satellites, which transmit data transmissions or broadcasts, such as satellite television.

Telephone communication through geo-stationary satellites, no land-based relay stations.